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Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

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Re: Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

#11
Love it. +1.

But wouldn't an obvious answer to this be to use a background full of swirl, then add people onto it, then swirl again (so the background swirl is swirled twice).

Then when you'd be "deswirling" with you code, you'll be finding something always swirled?

maybe even use a background who's "swirled right" and then "swirl left" the "backgroung + people" (or nyan cat or whatever)?

Re: Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

#12
post #3

Breaking captcha is bad, mkay :)

No more so than finding security vulnerabilities. Captchas that are trivial to break are going to be broken no matter what, so it's better for someone non-malicious to break it and make it well known, so that people don't use the captcha, than for it to go unnoticed.

Re: Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

#14

Love it. +1. But wouldn't an obvious answer to this be to use a background full of swirl, then add people onto it, then swirl again (so the background swirl is swirled twice). Then when you'd be "deswirling" with you code, you'll be finding something always swirled? maybe even use a background who's "swirled right" and then "swirl left" the "backgroung + people" (or nyan cat or whatever)?

> Then when you'd be "deswirling" with you code, you'll be finding something always swirled?

It wouldn't change what he is detecting, which is the sum of the edges.

Re: Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

#15
post #6
post #4

Hhahahaha, comment on the blog "Please post the Visual Basic codes for this. The language you post in the article is not Visual Basic. Thank you." xD God !

It's totally sarcasm

Not sure it's sarcasm, more like some blackhat SEO who wants to exploit it.

Re: Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

#17

Love it. +1. But wouldn't an obvious answer to this be to use a background full of swirl, then add people onto it, then swirl again (so the background swirl is swirled twice). Then when you'd be "deswirling" with you code, you'll be finding something always swirled? maybe even use a background who's "swirled right" and then "swirl left" the "backgroung + people" (or nyan cat or whatever)?

Did you read the article?
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